We Are Gladiators

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• Patch Notes·23 Nov 2023Official

  Fortnightly Update #4: New Enemies, Items, and ‘Quality Of Life’ Features.

  Greetings Gladiators! Two weeks ago, the team completed all the tasks, features and requirements we planned out for ourselves for version 7 of the game. With the completion of this milestone, we decided to reflect upon the state of the game and ask ourselves “Where is the fun, and where are the pain points? What parts of the game feel great, and what needs work? What are players saying positively or negatively with consistency?” . We spent the last 2 weeks methodically reviewing every aspect, feature, ability, character and enemy in the game, then removing and/or adjusting everything, and also adding a lot of new content. We’re happy to announce a swathe of new enemies have come to the arena! The Undead {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44335286/9249efb670d8227a07171dee79c91926e52caf24.jpg Introducing the Shambler, Armoured Shambler, Mind Flayer and Necromancer: the first enemies of a new type of foe, The Undead. Despite their clumsiness, poor reflexes and stupidity, the undead are a terrifying force that assaults the morale of your characters, making them more likely to flee and suffer heart attacks. They are immune to bleeding, injuries and fear effects, and gain cumulative accuracy bonuses as they surround and gang up on you. Fear not, for the undead are especially vulnerable to fire and burning effects! The Adventurers {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44335286/3da573585425bc06990f3210182d39aab743c41e.jpg Skillful and diverse characters with a passion for questing, tomb raiding and righting wrongs. There are 5 different types of adventurers, each with their own fighting style and tactics: The Berserker, Protector, Tomb Raider, Mage and Cleric. The Swamp Hag {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44335286/be93554015dac0903feb35053f1bf2cce8b06795.jpg The Swamp Hag is the arena’s second boss enemy. An elf with a dark heart and grudge against the empire, the Swamp Hag has emerged from her solitude within the swamps of Breedmarsh to unleash hordes of undead and poisonous rainfall upon you and your gladiators! Items,...
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• Patch Notes·9 Nov 2023Official

  Fortnightly Update #3: Mobile Ready, Optimization and DevOps

  Greetings Gladiators! This update ought to be a short one! During the last 2 weeks, we shifted our focus from adding new content to polishing up what we have, preparing the game for mobile, and developing our workflow tools and ‘under the hood’ stuff (for example, our DevOps pipeline and testing framework). The project received a long overdue optimization: the total build size of the windows version has shrunk from 1.1GB to approximately 650mb. The game is now available to play on android, and can be downloaded from our Itch.io page. If you're looking for something to do during your morning commute, we’d love for you to try out the mobile version and give us your feedback! Changes List Improved the ‘Knock Back / Dazed’ animation for characters that get hit by a charge or knock back effect: now they will be knocked directly away from the knock back source. Better high ground seeking AI logic for Imperial Marksmen enemies. Update the icon art for many passives, backgrounds and abilities. Added particle effects to the glow rings around level nodes. Imperial Veterans use Charge less aggressively. Fixed a bug that allowed characters to sprint through other characters and obstructions.
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• Patch Notes·25 Oct 2023Official

  Fortnightly Update #2: Enemy Improvements

  Happy Halloween Gladiators! Over the last two weeks, we focused heavily on improving the enemy characters and their AI. Imperial enemies received a massive overhaul in their attributes, equipment and tactics, and will now fight like a professional, military unit. We created 2 brand new imperial enemies: The Imperial Auxiliary and The Imperial Triarii. Imperial enemies almost always use shields, and will huddle together in tight formations. Lunker enemies also received some love from the team. These little green beasts have gained the ability to leap over your characters into your backline. We also toned down their aggression levels and taught them how to identify and gang up on your weakest characters. We’re also thrilled to introduce the game’s first boss: Imperial Captain Uku’ Toa, an exceptionally dangerous melee fighter. No more spoilers on him for now: you’ll have to face him on day 5 to see what awaits you! For the next week's sprint, we’ll continue to add new enemies and improve old ones. Our backlog of UX/QoL feature requests from play testers is growing steadily larger, so we’ll take the time to implement some of these (for example, fast mode setting, auto-turn end, reorderable character panels, etc). Changes List Populated the Breedmarsh town environment with procedurally generated characters that will move around and interact with each other. Hopefully this brings a bit of life to the swampy hell hole! Added two new imperial enemies: Imperial Auxiliary and Imperial Triarii Added the game’s first boss enemy + encounter: Captain Uku’ Toa and his Triarri guards. Improved the AI of all enemies. Enemies will be more measured in their aggression, work together as a team, delay their turns where tactically beneficial, seek high ground during engagements and closing the distance, and avoid engaging on water and mud. Lunker Younglings gained the ability “Leap”. Imperial Veterans gained the ability “Charge” Added more tips to the loading screen (some of them are ac...
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• Patch Notes·11 Oct 2023Official

  Our First Fortnightly Update

  Greeting Gladiators, Two weeks ago, we publicly released the demo for We Are Gladiators on Steam, and the response has been nothing short of phenomenal. We want to extend our heartfelt gratitude to each and every one of you who has participated, played, and provided invaluable feedback. No amount of words can't express how grateful we are for the volume of bug reports, feature requests and feedback we've received from all of you. Your enthusiasm fuels our passion to create the best gaming experience possible. Changles List Based on your feedback, we've been hard at work making improvements to the game. Here's a list of the most consequential changes we've implemented since the demo launch: Inventory space is now unlimited, instead of being restricted to 100 slots. When one of your characters is killed in combat, each item on the killed character has a 50% of being recovered and added back to your inventory, instead of being lost and gone. Enemies that you kill in the arena have a 25% chance to drop their items as loot (25% chance is rolled for each item). Completely overhauled the layout, art assets and functionality of the Armoury, Library and Hospital features. The Inventory window no longer exists on its own. Your inventory view is now embedded within the armoury, library and character roster pages for easier access. You can use ability books / learn abilities simply by right clicking an ability tome icon in your inventory within the character roster page. No more navigating to the library, dragging in a character, dragging in a book, confirming the choice, and having the character immediately ejected after learning. No more drag/dropping characters into the hospital. You can select which character to use bedrest/therapy/surgery on directly within the hospital page. This should make using the hospital faster and more intuitive. Updated the views/layout of the post combat screen where you view your character stats and loot. Loot and character stats are now on a si...
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